Thanks Chris, It looks like the site is overseas, so I imagine that it is difficult to deal with from a legal perspective. In my mind, this is the worst type of abuse. Taking the best intentions of the wonderful people who build this community and exploiting it for personal gain. Timothy Lee Russell www.anatone.net

I was doing a google search for the application ForestPad that I put up on The Code Project a couple of years ago and I noticed that another site, manbu dot net, seems to be screen scraping code project and delivering the content of articles as if they originated at manbu. Then they are using google adsense on the page to make money off of The Code Project and my article (among many others, of course). This seems slimy to me but is it even legal? Even though I provided the article as an open source thing to Code Project, can a third party just copy the article and code verbatim, strip out information regarding the author, and publish it as their own? An example link is below: link I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on this. Thanks, Timothy Timothy Lee Russell http://www.anatone.net

Well, actually, in this case, the quote "These resources have proven useful when building ForestPad" is the author (me) giving credit to CodeProject for being a useful resource. Also, it looks like there is a pretty large chunk of CodeProject articles on the manbu site (not just mine). If you've written an article -- it's probably up there -- but with no author attribution. Cheers, Timothy Timothy Lee Russell http://www.anatone.net

I was doing a search for the application (ForestPad) that I put up on The Code Project a couple of years ago and I noticed that another site, manbu dot net, seems to be screen scraping code project and delivering the content of articles as if they originated at manbu. Then they are using google adsense on the page to make money off of The Code Project and my article (among many others, of course). This seems slimy to me but is it even legal? Even though I provided the article as an open source thing to Code Project, can a third party just copy the article and code verbatim, strip out information regarding the author, and publish it as their own? An example link is below: link I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on this. Thanks, Timothy Timothy Lee Russell http://www.anatone.net

I use ServerIntellect and MaximumASP. They've both been good to me. Timothy Lee Russell http://www.anatone.net

SourceGear Vault is free for a one developer situation. I've used it for about three years at home. Works good -- simple, etc... Timothy Lee Russell www.anatone.net

I second (or third) that. Mastering Regular Expressions is well worth the price of admission. Using the right regex in the right situation could easily pay you back for the book. Timothy Lee Russell www.anatone.net

Absolutely, I agree. In fact, home recording, where you are both the "artist" and the "producer" is much like programming, in that you have a vision of where you want to be and you have to figure out creative solutions in order to get there using the skills and toolset that you have. Timothy Lee Russell www.anatone.net

I liked VI so much that I wrote a VI manual in college, 10 years ago. It was really cool at the time to be able to do things others couldn't, hands on the keyboard all the time. However, it might be time to move on. I don't think comparing the Visual Studio 2005 ide to VI is really an apples to apples comparison, to say the least. When I want to edit text now, I usually use UltraEdit, which is at least as powerful as VI, if not more so. Timothy Lee Russell http://www.anatone.net

You may have to change your working style a bit if you are working with asp.net since they introduced a different way of working with websites. However, if you go with the new vs2005 website model, you can get some serious productivity gains from not having to recompile the projects as you make small tweaks to the codebehind. It can be really slow when loading the designer view of pages so I would suggest setting the options so that pages load as the source view by default. There is a lot of cool shiny stuff in 2.0 such as generics which are incredibly useful. I personally think it is worth the pain of upgrading your solutions. (Even though it can be a huge PITA!) Timothy Lee Russell http://www.anatone.net

Hopefully the battery overload circuit cannot be controlled by Melissa the UniBomber virus. After all, I had second thoughts about using a laptop after that guy claimed that his naughty bits had been overly warmed. Timothy Lee Russell www.anatone.net

Yes, I think that this is very fair -- and I wouldn't be suprised if taking on this duty is actually a requirement of your contract. At my workplace, there is language in the contract that says something along the lines of: "Your duties may shift from your job description over time as deemed necessary by the management team". In fact, CodeProject wouldn't exist weren't it for people doing for free what you are now getting paid for. What would be unfair would be for your company to make you redundant after you trained another employee who they were paying less (although obviously it would be their loss from a brain drain perspective). Timothy http://www.anatone.net

I second Sourcegear Vault. I've never had a problem with it. Our team is three developers. One nice thing about it is that you can install a single user version for free at home, regardless of whether you are a paying customer or not. You only have to pay for licenses when you add a second user. Earlier in the thread, someone mentioned that if you were a lone developer, you might skip using source control. My opinion is that you should use source control even if you are the only developer. It has saved me from a number of bad outcomes. Timothy Lee Russell http://www.anatone.net

The same base class library is used by all in .NET, true. However, the range of libraries built on top of those classes is vast and expanding rapidly. I'm thinking in particular of Tom Miller pushing Managed DirectX. All of the arguments that fly around about managed code not being capable of producing commercial games is tripe and the next couple of years will prove that. It's just new and there aren't as many examples available as there are for C++. As everyone likes to point out, you can't build Half Life 2 on the .NET platform. So what. My favorite game of all time is "The Incredible Machine" and performance would not be an issue. I have a computer science degree. I understand the concepts behind managing memory. I just don't want to have to do it. In fact, it wouldn't be an overstatement to say that I hate C++. I don't want to have to think about managing everything. I find it boring. I didn't like it in college and I don't like it now. The differentiation in the future will be between technicians and artists. I don't really claim to be either but I'd rather fit into the latter group if I had a choice. Timothy Lee Russell http://www.anatone.net